The Complete Works - Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Letters -
Jane Austen
1911-12 - John Grant, Edinburgh - The Winchester Edition
‘I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.'
An elegantly bound twelve volume set, comprising all of Austen's works. With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram.
‘Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.’ Jane Austen (1775-1817) is fondly known for her novels Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion, as well as her humor, depiction of contemporary English country life and the morals of the second half of the 18th century. Publishing anonymously, Austen was only identified for the first time in one of her novels, five months after her death in 1817, by her brother Henry on the first publication of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.
Twelve octavo volumes (binding size 21.1x14.3cm), pp. [8] 276 [2]; [6] 286 [2]; [8] 292 [4]; [8] 297 [3]; [8] 347 [3]; [8] 355 [3]; [10] 356 [2]; [8] 358 [4]; [10] 348 [2]; [8] 373 [3]; [6] 407 [3]; [6] 407 [3]. Elegantly bound in recent three-quarter red calf over matching cloth, spines with raised bands, decorated with gilt rules and motif, each with twin navy blue morocco title labels lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Condition: Some faint spotting to some endpapers, and scattered foxing, in fine bindings. Ref: 111970 Price: HK$ 35,000
An elegantly bound twelve volume set, comprising all of Austen's works. With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram.
‘Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.’ Jane Austen (1775-1817) is fondly known for her novels Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion, as well as her humor, depiction of contemporary English country life and the morals of the second half of the 18th century. Publishing anonymously, Austen was only identified for the first time in one of her novels, five months after her death in 1817, by her brother Henry on the first publication of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey.
Twelve octavo volumes (binding size 21.1x14.3cm), pp. [8] 276 [2]; [6] 286 [2]; [8] 292 [4]; [8] 297 [3]; [8] 347 [3]; [8] 355 [3]; [10] 356 [2]; [8] 358 [4]; [10] 348 [2]; [8] 373 [3]; [6] 407 [3]; [6] 407 [3]. Elegantly bound in recent three-quarter red calf over matching cloth, spines with raised bands, decorated with gilt rules and motif, each with twin navy blue morocco title labels lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Condition: Some faint spotting to some endpapers, and scattered foxing, in fine bindings. Ref: 111970 Price: HK$ 35,000